Yoga is to dance without a reason

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Acharya Prashant (AP): You will see that I’m repeatedly stressing on Krishna as the demolisher, on Krishna as someone who not only does not accept our prevalent definitions of right-wrong, true and false, humility, authority, right action, non-violence but, in fact, unabashedly and actively demolishes them. It is one thing to come up with a realized version of the same old stuff, and it is totally another thing to come up with something that is totally fresh, original, and unprecedented. That’s what Krishna is.

When Krishna deviates from the established definition and concept of something, it is not a minor deviation, it is not an incremental change, it is not a little bit of correction — it is a total explosion. We cannot even say that it is a 180-degree turn. We cannot even say that Krishna speaks the opposite of what we have usually heard. Because even if we say that Krishna stands totally against our concepts, we are still somehow relating Krishna to our own stand; we are still saying that Krishna is giving us another concept that is opposed to our concept, and thereby related to our concept.

So, it’s neither a minor deviation nor a major deviation, and not even a total deviation. It is a dimensionally different space into which Krishna takes us…